Recently, one of my computers has taken ill. It just arbitrarily locks up from time to time, causing me to have to reboot. No BSODs, Error messages (from the Event Viewer in the Admin Panel) seem to point to the ide controller. The numerous and frequent power outages that we seem to have seems to have contributed to the problem because this didn't start until the time before last power outage. Usually, my motherboard has rebounded without flaw. However, it is getting old. My 1.4 GHZ AMD Athlon Thunderbird, seems to be ok and holding it's own. It has been a workhorse, that's for sure. My options are to obtain an Abit KG-7 RAID motherboard for around $35 and do a direct swap with no software problems or obtain a newer motherboard, processor, RAM, vid card, etc at a much higher expense and rework windows for the new motherboard. I probably need to consider the power supply, too. What would you tech heads recommend?? (bear in mind, I have extremely limited funds)